Guild Wars 2

TexZero.7910:

keramatzmode.1906:

Here’s my suggestion, dont worry its not as bad.

There will be hardcore and normal. Hardcore is the usual 10 man. Normal is 20 man raids.

Normal raids only consists two bosses, which will not lead to the final boss, you have to play hardcore for that. Want to fight Sabetha or Xera? gotta git gud and get into hardcore. However, all mechanics and difficulty will be the same, it will be the same outcome if you don’t do certain mechanics that will result in a wipe.

Normal raids can have 20 people into the raid. and rewards will only be given out after you clear both two bosses. for example, you have to kill both VG and Gorserval to get 1 LI and some magnetite shards, so that they can gear their ascended stuff before getting into hardcore and thats it. You wont get to progress anymore. It also allows people who done their hardcore raid to get into normal raids for extra LI.

To encourage players git gud for hardcore, new layers will be given a “newbie” buff for bosses they never cleared before in hardcore mode. Upon a clear, everyone in squad will get an extra LI as a token of appreciation guiding new raiders.

Or they could just join the current raids and do those as we have no reason to lower difficulty what so ever.

With the current barrier of LI requirement? Not likely unless you join a raiding guild that offers training. The “just join” mentality is severely contradicting what the raid community looks like in LFG. “make your own training squad” is nothing more but bullkitten.

Like I said, my suggestion simply offers a win-win situation, a difficulty that retains intact, but with more people to run with. In addition, the last boss content is cut to motivate/tease them for harder content. Gives the incentive for raiding veteran to roll with them for that extra 1 LI.

The “newbie” boon is also a good addition and worked well with other MMOs. Anyone going against this is contradicting themselves to keep “newbies” away from our sekrit club raids.

If you just want to throw some money into the gemstore, I will list in order of importance of essential gemstore to buy before you get any skins, outfit or whatever:

1. Copper Salvage O Matic
This will help you to farm without hassle. You can burn through all your picked up loots of green and blues into materials and save some money on the go. This item is not intended to an extend it balances back profit like unlimited gathering tools, but a convinience and wont slow you down searching for merchants to buy salvage kits. With shared inventory slot, it helps you a lot.

Protip: Right click on your salvage o matic, and click salvage all blues and greens. Saves you the clicking. Rares should be salvaged with Master kits and not with copper o matic.

Put this in your Shared Inventory Slot so all your characters can use it.

2. Bag slots
Often GW2 known as Inventory Wars, this is due to the fact of micromanaging your godkitten sigils you salvaged. More slots means more loots to carry and sell them at TP.

Protip: doing WvW can give you badges, and with those you can purchase a WvW satchel bags with 20 slots for cheap+Badges.

3A. Any kind of VIP pass
Passes like royal terrace, airship or mistlock can grant you access to vip area with a VERY short distance to run from crafting stations to TP, to merchants and to banks. Try levelling your crafting at black citadel and you know how painful it is. Buy the two week pass (150 gems, like maybe 50 gold) and you can try it out if you like it. Permanent ones are not often sold at gemstore, be ready with 1000 gems if you want a permanent pass.

Remember you need another Shared Inventory Slot to share one pass with all your alternate character, since you already use one with Copper O Matic. But I believe buying both HoT and PoF gives you 2 slots so Idk.

3B. Unlimited Gathering Tools
Gathering tools or passes, these two are the “mid upgrade” of gemstore stuff. I personally think a pass is far more important than gathering tools because of how they dont run out as easily as salvage kits. And it is not shared among everyone, with addition how expensive it is. I recommend you buy them on sale, like this month.

Now the final tip is that: You dont need to purchase all gems with real money, farming HoT map or SW can net you with 50 gold easy, which translates about 200 gems a day if you’re playing godawfully casual for 5 hours or so. It helps you in the long run financing your gemstore spending. This is why I recommend copper salvage to make your farming more efficient without WP-ing to merchants and stack more salvage kits.

Here’s my suggestion, dont worry its not as bad.

There will be hardcore and normal. Hardcore is the usual 10 man. Normal is 20 man raids.

Normal raids only consists two bosses, which will not lead to the final boss, you have to play hardcore for that. Want to fight Sabetha or Xera? gotta git gud and get into hardcore. However, all mechanics and difficulty will be the same, it will be the same outcome if you don’t do certain mechanics that will result in a wipe.

Normal raids can have 20 people into the raid. and rewards will only be given out after you clear both two bosses. for example, you have to kill both VG and Gorserval to get 1 LI and some magnetite shards, so that they can gear their ascended stuff before getting into hardcore and thats it. You wont get to progress anymore. It also allows people who done their hardcore raid to get into normal raids for extra LI.

To encourage players git gud for hardcore, inexperienced players will be given a “newbie” buff for bosses they never cleared before in hardcore mode. Upon a clear, everyone in squad will get an extra LI as a token of appreciation guiding new raiders.

Finally, smashing someone with 2400 leap against classes who have teleport mechanics like thief shadowstep and Elementalist Flash or Mesmer Blink. It feels so good to be able to jump on them instead of relying on magnet. Thanks anet.

Now about that turret…

I want back my turrets. I don’t care about anything else.

Just give us a new AI window so we can activate it manually. More buttons to press, I dont care. I just want to have more control on my turrets.

Also it needs a bit more HP, for a static turret with higher cooldowns, it sure dies faster than minions. What a joke anet.

For what reason you run scrapper now in PvE? Will it forever be assigned into PvP exclusive mechanics? The only problems I have with Scrapper, it brings no benefits to YOURSELF in PvP, or even other people when they won’t get downed in any situation.

I wish anet adds a bit more functionality when Function Gyro is active. They should have provided some sort of boons, or add another slot so you can use it as a utility gyro. Which means, you can use two shred gyros for example.

Scrapper should be able to use the gyro when downed on themselves.

We live in 2017 where mounts trigger people in a videogame, to an extend you want a censorship because somehow you have personal problems with people using domesticated wildlife as a mode of transportation.

Seriously, you are making fun of yourself OP.

keramatzmode.1906:

It’s a high DPS spec for engi that want might stacks and . Most of the expac will feature more stuff related to day and night cycles. Their skills are more related to light skills and light fields. Their skills features support skills and warrior-esque burst skills. All the new specialization will be following the theme of day and night, and holosmith utilises the sun to utilise their light energy.

The themes are more related to tech and computers. Their mechanics are added with a resource bar that can overheat your “suit” and have different effect based on your skills.
Think of it as a rumble from League, too cold it deals less damage but recharges your skills faster, but at high heat they burst for so much more but shutdowns your other holosmith abilities.

Its somewhat like warrior adrenaline and a bit of revenant. You remove the heat with exhaust skills that can grant might or shoot laser beams. And intake skills like your heal skills or support skill that can make clones of your allies and your own.

I’m just talking out of my kitten but I think that will be the spec.

I am a messiah

Jungle Outfit. Bring it back. Need to gear up for crystal desert.

The condis are okay, but a 10 stack for standing one tick of a second in their AOE is absurd. I mean sure, im glad im running thief with tricks and drunk engi. But man, theyre dreadful if youre on a warrior. The problem is, they SPAM their AOE skills way too often.

My problems isnt with the magma hoever, but the jumping lava rivers that can kills you in an instant.

The only asura aesthetic outfit is in the gemstore now?

How dare they! Give me more HUMAN OUTFITS because those are UNREALISTIC scifi! #HumanFemaleMeta

Leo G.4501:

Are my eyes playing tricks on me? Praise for outfits?

The exosuit deserve the praise. Personally I kind of hate uncreative outfit they usually churn out, but this one is done well and fits in that unique and lore-friendly. And to be honest, this is the only update that have a new asura armor/outfit other than the cultural armor, so we Asura players had to resort using cultural armor everytime. Taimi outfit is too human (similar to magitech) so it’s a nice update.

If you hated how it’s a gemstore item, I farm 200 gems minimum in a week, so I saved up for this day. The economy is getting better, so I personally think it is good. Yeah it’s a bummer it’s an outfit instead of individual skin piece, but the design alone is worth it.

I think it is for Episode 6 preparation. Given that most of the snow related stuff going on sale with new Jormag Dye, I think the new episode 6 map will be at Shiverpeak Mountains and will be releasing soon.

By soon probably this week.

Asura warrior so you feel like a small kitten cute guy who kills dudes 5x larger than him

I think the design dude should get a bit of pointers on how heavy armor should look like. Not all of them are fully metal, some of them also have quite a lot of leather parts too.

And helms, why can’t you make a heavy helm that only exposes the eyes? Asura T3 Heavy Armor looks so good, why don’t you make more of those?

And taking a bit of design principles off Dark Souls wouldn’t hurt.

Ashen.2907:

keramatzmode.1906:

can’t figure out how to ride a horse?

How does one figure out how to ride an animal that doesn’t exist?

Humans in the real world have produced airships, spaceships, submarines, helicopters, etc, etc, etc…

and yet have not mastered the art of riding gryphons…

B-but the guards at DR did talk about horses: “Why would you want a horse who could talk”

But kitten you were right, that makes sense about taming gryphons and riding them.

Mounts are needed to pursue the lore. Don’t you think it is weird a civilised society can build an airship with cannons, but can’t figure out how to ride a horse?

The new expac will add maps with less waypoints and I think it is crucial to add a method on how to explore such vast maps. HoT give you vertical navigation, and it is about time we get a long navigation without being lazy and rely on waypoints. These are level 80 zones, so it must be gritty and harder to come back to a meta event and not dying.

Adding mount’s isnt necessarily a “mob skip” option, maybe they can introduce some sort of mobs/enemies that are more effective to be killed with mounts when travelling, while some are better to be killed on foot.

The only problem in such mastery is that, anet need to introduce mount upgrade system (not mastery) that allows you to customize your mounts. Please no more gemstore only content.

It’s a high DPS spec for engi that want might stacks and . Most of the expac will feature more stuff related to day and night cycles. Their skills are more related to light skills and light fields. Their skills features support skills and warrior-esque burst skills. All the new specialization will be following the theme of day and night, and holosmith utilises the sun to utilise their light energy.

The themes are more related to tech and computers. Their mechanics are added with a resource bar that can overheat your “suit” and have different effect based on your skills.
Think of it as a rumble from League, too cold it deals less damage but recharges your skills faster, but at high heat they burst for so much more but shutdowns your other holosmith abilities.

Its somewhat like warrior adrenaline and a bit of revenant. You remove the heat with exhaust skills that can grant might or shoot laser beams. And intake skills like your heal skills or support skill that can make clones of your allies and your own.

I’m just talking out of my kitten but I think that will be the spec.

engineer is by far, has the best utility and options not available by any class in the game.

Engineer has the most active skill in the game, more buttons to press and all of them have their strength. Swapping kits have no cooldown. Engie also technically have 15 seconds reflect if you trait it properly with turrets and gyro heal. They have a low cooldown invulnerability elixir (with toolbelt STEALTH!). Traited shield and toolbelt gives you a lot of blocking. Stealth detection, and mortar kit, an elite that have no cooldown which opens you up with more option for aoe disables.

This often met with their weakness in unreliable dps and condi damage (compared to other condi classes). You may not be able to kill things as fast but fighting anything is always a fair game with engineer. Engineer have so much control but you had to decide whether you want to build yourself for solo (which is less recommended but doable with rifles which you can check on metabattle), but with a group, you are a force multiplyer with strong pulls, launches and control.

That said, engie suffers quite much on pve, but they do have the strongest bar breaker. Tossing elixir X can drop bars to half in most dungeon bosses.

Frightlight.3796:

I have already stated before that rifle needs a change with its auto since its more like a shotgun it should act like one with auto attacks.
Range from 600-900 lower damage
300-600 medium
0-300 max damage
Also giving it a small aoe cone that hits up to 5 targets for aoe while adding vuln or something (can be adjusted in firearms for bleed effects or other things through traits)
Blunderbuss should be changed to some kind of explosive shot ability maybe another leap or a multibutton skill, like a high damage double barrel shotgun style skill for burst with a daze.
eh whatever

I agree, rifle should act as a cleaving mechanics like a shotgun, treat it as blunderbuss but with adjusted damage appropriately.

And change blunderbuss into Nitro Slug, it deals chill condition to 5 enemy within 400 aoe of target

It is stylish as hell and that alone wins for my choice. Who cares about winning when you roleplay as akimbo jesus and max payne?

Though I use them in WvW blobs to kite and burst singled out enemy.

GoGoBunny.6324:

Well I posted my displeasure in this forum and various other places online when HoT came out about the pricing. Never mind that the price was the same amount of money the entire game used to cost. I felt it was a bad show of gratitude towards old customers who paid for their copies of GW2 when it launched and stuck around spending money in the in game shop since then. I said I would purchase HoT when it was on sale.

And now it is. I purchased my upgrade last night. Thanks ANet. Glad to be back.

I was just like you, waiting for an inevitable discount. But man, what I’m seeing with bad feedback about HoT and displeasure of purchasing it. I have to hold my money. My loss or whatever, the only thing I am interested in HoT is probably Elite specs and that’s it. I’m already smell some sort of “bad news” when they started to offer free HoT with Core to new players and we had to pay the same full price. Even AFTER all these time, it still wont warrant my choice to pass my money for HoT. Even the White Mantle LS3 or whatever, the story is already down the drain and is just a pretext to keep “expansions” going. With waaaay too little zones to explore, and way too little armor set, it does not makes sense to me and also people who defend this pricing structure.

I am pretty sure they wanted to make up their loss selling HoT at lower profit and eventually not that many early players pre ordered their HoT (lets not forget the “most upvoted thread” reddit). And they dare to sell ONLY glider skins without any other attractive gliders AFTER you bought HoT because apparently there’s kitten tons of paywall behind everything what said on the “content” box. And lots of outfits being pumped endlessly on gemstore yet I haven’t seen any kind of new stuff outside than gliders and specialization “if you own HoT” that really interest me.

Things go downhill SINCE they started the HoT preorders and for new players too. I am pretty darn sure they knew they effed up their plans on pricing and see what happens to the gemstore with stuff that could have been obtained without gems.

Just give me kitten pass to get specialization and I don’t need your raids, your butchered “oh darn we can’t have this VA too often lets kill her character lol and replace with inferior dumblr-tier team” story, your jungle thing which MANAGED to be worse than the existing maps* and unenjoyable to follow, your excuse to “bring people together in complete new stuff” but actually a grindwall, your badly renamed “horizontal progression” is nothing more but to avoid people realize HoT have so little stuff to have and own by putting up Masteries to grind for.

Screw all that. Give me Specialization for 5$ and that’s it. I don’t need other garbage. Imma wait for the next expansion and see what happens next but boy I’m not buying. I probably even leave the game before they announced new xpac.

Boogiepop Void.6473:

Temvay the Arrogant dashes around so much you can barely hit him, Varre the Underhanded puts out so much nearly undodgeable damage that he can wipe a group of 50 before hitting half health, and the list goes on. And that doesn’t even bring me to the Executioner, who can 1 hit most classes regardless of armor. Who thought these were balanced to the level adjustment that we are fighting under? Even with level 80 equipment we are seeing full 50 person squads wiping on these multiple times. The damage output and low dodgeability and rapidity of the damage is insane for how much health we have to work with.

I solo’ed Temvay and Varre. Temvay’s attack telegraph are easy to notice and its patterns are easy to memorize. I’m on engineer with juggernaut and condi cleanse though experience may differ. Varre is super easy if you get ranged weapons. Literally just circle him to death, maybe one or two of his mobs will be a nuisance but you can tank it with heal. Circle in one direction and just AA.
I’m bad at this game, I’m pretty darn sure 90% of the game population plays better than me and the champs are pretty easy and boring.
The problem with Varre mostly is because people aren’t gud enough to walk SIDEWAYS. Probably scrubs who use the old rotate moving control instead of strafing. And group up in a single spot at melee range and thinks he’s tanky enough to eat his black powder bombs.

For executioner, yes I would agree they do give a kittenallenge but they are legendary ranked boss so I would say they are properly designed. Though there are still people who wont break her/his bar when finishing due to negligence to learn about mechanics.

Do anyone think AMR is abosulte trash? The nerf is expected, but 90 second CD nerf is too harsh, it is understandable fighting against engineer with 10 second CD AED is annoying, but I honestly think 90 second just silly.

Not to mention its hard to keep in check whenever your AMR has done recharging or not, which can lead your death thinking your healing skill will recharge automatically. There are no indicator like Refined Kits do whenever the trait is “ready”. If it was 10 second CD, I probably can count like 1-2 SPVP encounter to wait for it to recharge, but with 90 second, you probably only get to use 3-5 times in an SPVP match That’s like, an elite skill worth of usage.

I suggest 2 ways to improve AMR.

-give an indicator whether AMR is off cooldown and reduce the CD to 30s
OR
-keep the 90s cooldown, but automatically activates an AED when taking lethal damage.

This is at least to keep up with necro tanky build with auto death shroud upon lethal damage. And to actually make at least the trait useful again.

What do you guys think? Is AMR still worth it in the inventions spec? I honestly really let down and the only option left is the auto smoke bomb. I rarely go shield, since I go p/p most of the time. I mainly use Bunker Down in my build and based on revolve around that trait alone.

Commission done for GscGunner of his Lokar Yakslapper!

I am open again for one slot of commission!

My price shown above is for limited time only.

900 percent cd increase.

what else is new for engineer. Next they gonna add ICD for double Orbital Strike and increase bunker down ICD to 30s while other classes enjoy their one hit burst and load of sustains.

Comission slot is closed atm and fully booked.

GscGunner.2419:

Could I get a full body coloured of my Guardian, Lokar Yakslapper?

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Moonlit.6421:

Can I get a full body colored drawing of my ranger Tavoron?

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Yes. The price as shown in the OP. Do send your deposit of 5 gold with your detailed order, and we will discuss via forum PM. It is much easier.

Currently I have overwhelming orders, so you probably can send a mail with deposits to my character Nur Keramat. Comission slots are first come, first served basis.

Please tell your account name on the mail too, so I wont get confused!

Also do note all prices are offer prices for thread opening, I’m offering the cheapest for introductory price.

They took our turrets
They took our mortars
They took our grenades

pray to god they wont take our blasts and water fields.

COMMISSION SLOT IS FULLY BOOKED.

I decided to make a thread for the art stuff, to avoid making multiple threads.

Mainly this is to open for some commission to those who are interested.
I mostly accept in-game golds and gems. You can also pay with cash, but I prefer in-game currencies.

PRICES SHOWN ARE AT DISCOUNTED RATE FOR THREAD OPENING. I will notify if there will be a price increase for new commissions.

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I like this.

Make it a high loot stuff inside. Only the strong will get the best loot with limited amount of loot available.

You can party up with 5 people (or a whole guild), then will spawn from 5 different gate and get to the center of the map.
Upon exiting gate, you will be claoked for 3 minutes and revealed after exiting a proximity range. Then there’s some sort of jumping puzzle to get to the center and everybody have to fight for it or push them off a cliff

no more hugging sw chest train.
no more taxi

you want that chest? you have to fight for it. It’s like Survival of the Fittest except wvw wide scale.

out of a sudden “that” group of people make remarks on morality and choices.

Bravo. I leave this here.

https://tera-forums.enmasse.com/forums/general-discussion/topics/BHS-Elin-saved-Tera

You have my full support and will instabuy.

Lyle.8591:

keramatzmode.1906:

Torsailr.8456:

keramatzmode.1906:

Lyle.8591:

i would be glad to weed out people who disagree with my ‘lifestyle’.
it’s hurtful and unnecessary there isn’t a way you can sell me otherwise.

i didn’t know who i really was for years because of ignorance of those around me and the social pressure to be straight.

also WOW… to EVERYONE saying it is being “shoved in their face”

because the anet team posts ONE picture on the biggest day in equality history????

do you realize what lgbt people have to deal with every day ? “shoved in my face”
wow… i am just like at a loss for words at anyone who could think those thoughts…

First you said you are glad to weed out people who disagree with you… and you tell us what you are facing every day is the worst? How about try not to shove in everybody’s face, that would certainly help.

I can’t fathom why you guys always be so aggressive, but you always say “love power”.

History has proven that you have to be aggressive to get a culture wide wrong fixed. It is not enough to settle for half measures or small victories; you need to be aggressive through to the end, in every situation, or you’ll never get equality.

You either fight for your rights or you’ll be a second class citizen forever.

And that’s how you always hyping up the “welcome to the 21st century”? We become kittenholes to every single people who disagrees with you?

i feel as though everyone is missing a huge point here…
yes, i agree that sometimes social push is the only way to really break through… but the thing is arenet has not even done that.

they feature a few lgbt characters out of their hundreds. they made one tweet. that is not being socially aggressive, and only slightly progressive! it’s a great thing, believe me!! but it isn’t ‘fighting’, it’s /representing/.

Nah I don’t mind if any company out there wants to actually represent themselves to stand with certain groups and their stance. Im not about arenanet tweet, but it really gathers some heavy responses from both sides who supports and not.

Im talking about the LGBT players who are always having this aggressive behaviour whenever they came across a hetero and try to act mighty above all, like you can see some of the posts here:
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Can-the-Community-Team-Refrain-from-Politics/first#post5217759
https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Can-the-Community-Team-Refrain-from-Politics/page/3#post5218501

Why do they have to be so obnoxious? Why these people are like this? If you keep doing this, we are going to annoyed by this behaviour. And I UNDERSTAND, not all the LGBT people who do this, but why I’m seeing this a lot?

Torsailr.8456:

keramatzmode.1906:

Lyle.8591:

i would be glad to weed out people who disagree with my ‘lifestyle’.
it’s hurtful and unnecessary there isn’t a way you can sell me otherwise.

i didn’t know who i really was for years because of ignorance of those around me and the social pressure to be straight.

also WOW… to EVERYONE saying it is being “shoved in their face”

because the anet team posts ONE picture on the biggest day in equality history????

do you realize what lgbt people have to deal with every day ? “shoved in my face”
wow… i am just like at a loss for words at anyone who could think those thoughts…

First you said you are glad to weed out people who disagree with you… and you tell us what you are facing every day is the worst? How about try not to shove in everybody’s face, that would certainly help.

I can’t fathom why you guys always be so aggressive, but you always say “love power”.

History has proven that you have to be aggressive to get a culture wide wrong fixed. It is not enough to settle for half measures or small victories; you need to be aggressive through to the end, in every situation, or you’ll never get equality.

You either fight for your rights or you’ll be a second class citizen forever.

And that’s how you always hyping up the “welcome to the 21st century”? We become kittenholes to every single people who disagrees with you?

Vayne.8563:

Terok.7315:

So GW2 is now a platform for various world views, huh? I kinda liked it better when it was just a video game.

One tweet doesn’t make it a platform for anything.

Then you forget about the Living Story 2, the Diversity’s Edge, to an extend it become the main primary focus. I mean I chill about sylvari being new and actually bisexual or whatever, but you cannot deny the fact it is overtaking the whole story.

And imma tell you the truth, I’m not trusting them to preordering HoT because of the story being butchered for the sake of “world view” I’m pretty sure they gonna pull off some story worse than those on fanfiction.net

Stop hiding the fact.

Lyle.8591:

i would be glad to weed out people who disagree with my ‘lifestyle’.
it’s hurtful and unnecessary there isn’t a way you can sell me otherwise.

i didn’t know who i really was for years because of ignorance of those around me and the social pressure to be straight.

also WOW… to EVERYONE saying it is being “shoved in their face”

because the anet team posts ONE picture on the biggest day in equality history????

do you realize what lgbt people have to deal with every day ? “shoved in my face”
wow… i am just like at a loss for words at anyone who could think those thoughts…

First you said you are glad to weed out people who disagree with you… and you tell us what you are facing every day is the worst? How about try not to shove in everybody’s face, that would certainly help.

I can’t fathom why you guys always be so aggressive, but you always say “love power”.

The problem about MMORPG is when people try to force IRL stuff into it.

This what makes videogames is less and less entertaining everytime you obnoxious people want to force your real life issues into a virtual world where we all want to take a break from real life problems.

Sure, I don’t mind if suddenly theres a flying pact airship with rainbow flag flying or whatever above LA as a celebration, but I am 100% pretty sure these folks won’t be satisfied and they want more and more “representation” in this fantasy world.

Put your pride to a limit. I’m glad for you celebrating the legislation today, but please, you do not have to run around and scream about it all day, you are slowly turning into heterophobes that are no better than the homphobes.

Stop making threads about LGBT it will never end well. Instead of kittening up the forum because muh agendas and muh pride, why not focus on more deliberate issues this game has. You know, like where the hell is SAB 3? Where is the next HoT update preview? Or the new legendary? But no, you decide to focus on petty things like this tweet. Or that NPC.

Either way, grats for actually able to marry legally.

The new Lion’s Arch are pretty cool, but it is lacking on some fundamental aspect to make it a good city.

There are way too many parts of the city feels dislocated from the city. Case in point, the buildings seems to be clustered in the map, it somehow feels disconnected between each other. The pathway is curvy and sometimes confusing. The roads feels cheap because you still step on dirt instead of a proper stone pavement.

In terms of coloring scheme, I really love the white color lined with gold and some pretty blue/green glasses. The idea of Romanesque Revival that is presented is well done.

The parthway of certain vendors seems to be lacking, and REALLY inconvenient for the players to move around. For example, the dungeon vendor is located far away from a waypoint on Fort Mariner. And the character feels unimportant, just standing there and even without a booth. I think you should review on location of NPCs in the map.

The Asura Gates is well placed. No problem on that.

Now the biggest problem with the map is… the Grand Plaza. It feels REALLY barren compared to the lion and fountains in the old LA. I am really hoping that is not a final design. And also, the curvy, sylvari-ish pillars of the large canopy just does not fit with the “blocky” design of other buildings.

Grand Plaza is the main datum, a high hierarchy venue amongst all places in the game for all people to idle and do social stuff especially for guilds before starting a GM or anything. It is so underwhelming compared to other buildings like the lobster or the really awesome lighthouse (props on that one). I recommend adding some lighting. Some lions statue or a really nice fountain+lasershow. Do something!

LA is really good and wonderfully done, but the fundamentals of a good city is lacking. That’s it, regardless I like this place.

1.Mortar kit is abokittene garbage, the long range and slow projectile is not worth than the supply crate. Even the orbital strike has superlong delay with obvious animation. It will have it niche in some people, but supply crate is better in any way. I even rather take the elixir x over mortar. If mortar had their damage back I will absolutely pick them again.

2. Best to worst. Supply crate>Elixir>Mortar>Racial

3. Bomb are still staple sometimes for me, but due to recent flamethrower buff on burning it is now my favourite kit. I run elixir for fun, but the AA is still underpowered for solo run, (good for the fumigate condi-boon) if you are well coordinated. And still good for those who want the grandmaster on alchemy, since the specialization opens up more possiblities.

4. HGH + Juggernaut + Bunker Down is pretty much my build atm, paired it up with flame legion and on-crit sigils. I can see FT viable in the new meta. You just chase down anyone who is dumb enough to be the next thanksgiving roast. You just hit them up close and drink elixirs to keep you pumped, and them melting.

5. too clunky. too cumbersome to use and just full of gimmicks. I’m not saying I don’t enjoy using a kit fully focus on buffs and absolutely no damage, but design philosophy of GW2 avoiding the Holy Trinity, healer kit is just… awkward. Healing power stat is still not viable for play. Oh and btw, the healing kit skill 1 DOES NOT HAVE A SOUND EFFECT.

6. AED has too much distinctive sound when activated, and too risky in play. Turret is still good for any situation due to the 2xwater fields. Medkit is absolute trash as above.

7. At this moment the only gadget that I only used (and most others) are rocket boots, and sometimes, slick boots. Rocket boots are literally the only good gadget in the game, because it favours more on the DPS. I might be wrong if CC is more important now like ram and throw mine, but rotation in kits are any way better and still the best way to go engineer. Does not make sense to trait your gadget, which you can only use once.

azizul.8469:

for SEA players, it is around 3.00am 24th June (past midnight, very early morning)

Welp, sleep early for LA reopening then celebrate while eating breakfast.

please add caps Anet ;_;

anyways, if you want me to draw something for you shoot me a PM.

Hold on to your money. I honestly from what they have shown and promised, it is worth 15-20. 50 dollars, I better preorder fallout 4. 50 dollars is beyond comprehension of what it’s worth.

Besides, the preorder is recommended for the new players getting in. But for the current players, hold on to your money. This is plain ridiculous. Unless you want the rytlock mini and the good gem deal, go get the ultimate if you can afford one.

It is simple. They are relying on us to offset that base game cost they are promoting to potential new players.

We have to help arenanet xDDDDDDDDDD

Regina Buenaobra.6193:

To clarify: $50 is the price of the expansion. We included the core game as a free bonus to make it easier for new players to get into it.

But what about US, who cannot choose to not buy another copy? IF, the expansion really costs 50 dollars, then I expect my game content is doubled. I need 8 new dungeons, another main story, and another world map instead of one map. I cannot see this as a breakthrough expansion pack, but more of an update. I can grab the expansion at 50 dollars right now, but frankly the expansion gives me waaaay too little at that price. I was expecting maybe 20 or 35 dollars top, and maybe I’ll buy the second tier that gives me more bonuses. But nope, severely disappointed.

However, I would happily to buy a standard expansion with a character slot for existing accounts (or maybe some gems or toys/minis/skins I don’t know). I can afford a 50$ expansion pack, but man, I believe 50 dollars for expansion and some stuff thrown in FOR the OLD PLAYERS could have been a bit better. This is quite a slap from you guys.

It sounds… so out of place.
Like you know, guardian meaning to look over something, BUT NOPE, LEMME HUNT SOMETHING WITH A BOW HERE.

Why not something more angelical or heavenly name? It feels way out of place. Protectorate, Vanguard, Paladin. Or probably idk, Rearguard since you go backline now.

but man, dragonhunter?